Function std.process.spawnShell
A variation on spawnProcess
that runs the given command through
the current user's preferred command interpreter (aka. shell).
Pid spawnShell
(
scope const(char)[] command,
File stdin = makeGlobal(),
File stdout = makeGlobal(),
File stderr = makeGlobal(),
scope const(string[string]) env = cast(const(string[string]))null,
Config config = cast(Config)0,
scope const(char)[] workDir = null,
scope string shellPath = nativeShell()
) @trusted;
Pid spawnShell
(
scope const(char)[] command,
scope const(string[string]) env,
Config config = cast(Config)0,
scope const(char)[] workDir = null,
scope string shellPath = nativeShell()
) @trusted;
The string command
is passed verbatim to the shell, and is therefore
subject to its rules about command structure, argument/filename quoting
and escaping of special characters.
The path to the shell executable defaults to nativeShell
.
In all other respects this function works just like spawnProcess
.
Please refer to the spawnProcess
documentation for descriptions
of the other function parameters, the return value and any exceptions
that may be thrown.
// Run the command/program "foo" on the file named "my file.txt", and
// redirect its output into foo.log.
auto pid = spawnShell(`foo "my file.txt" > foo.log`);
wait(pid);
See also
escapeShellCommand
, which may be helpful in constructing a
properly quoted and escaped shell command line for the current platform.
Authors
Lars Tandle Kyllingstad, Steven Schveighoffer, Vladimir Panteleev